Trump: Bannon ‘Changed His Tune Pretty Quick’ When He Called Me ‘Great’

President Donald Trump turns to talk to the gathered media during a Christmas Eve video teleconference with members of the mIlitary at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
FILE - In a Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump turns to talk to the gathered media during a Christmas Eve video teleconference with members of the mIlitary at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach... FILE - In a Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump turns to talk to the gathered media during a Christmas Eve video teleconference with members of the mIlitary at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. President Donald Trump is criticizing the U.S. Postal Service, saying the agency is “losing many billions of dollars a year” and asking why it is “charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages.” Trump tweeted Friday, Dec. 29, that the post office “should be charging MUCH MORE!” (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump said Thursday that he doesn’t talk to former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, and that Bannon had “changed his tune pretty quick” after the fallout from certain comments of his in a forthcoming book.

Trump was responding to reporters’ questions about Bannon during a press pool spray Thursday. As quoted in Michael Wolff’s forthcoming book “Fire and Fury,” Bannon reportedly called Donald Trump Jr. and others’ campaign-era meeting with Kremlin-linked Russians “treasonous.” Trump’s response to the quotes was immediate and angry.

“Did Steve Bannon betray you, Mr. President?” one reporter was heard asking in television footage of the spray.

“I don’t know, he called me a great man last night, so he obviously changed his tune pretty quick,” Trump responded.

Trump was referring to Bannon’s comments on his “Breitbart News Tonight” radio show Wednesday night.

“The President of the United States is a great man. You know I support him day in and day out, whether going through the country giving the Trump Miracle speech, or on the show, or on the website, so I don’t think you have to worry about that,” Bannon told a caller who asked about his and Trump’s public rift.

Trump continued, responding to reporters: “I don’t talk to him. I don’t talk to him. I don’t talk to him. That’s just a misnomer.”

That contradicts what Sanders said Wednesday when asked about Bannon: that he and Trump had last spoken, she believed, in the “first part of December.”

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  1. So, the person who “lost his mind” called you great. Got it.

  2. No one can make you angry like someone you love.

  3. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    “I don’t talk to him. I don’t talk to him. I don’t talk to him. That’s just a misnomer.”

    Shockingly, the dotard fails utterly when attempting to use an SAT vocabulary word in an appropriate manner.

  4. See…no matter how bad it is for Delusional Don, he has that innate power to turn it around, upside down and make lemonade out of whatever comes his way. Call it delusional if you like, but he sure has a way to pat himself on the back when he manages to fuck up everything within sight and then some. Something to look forward to after he sends that nuclear warhead careening north, south, east or west. It’ll be great, you’ll see…because everyone, eventually admits how great he is…besides, if they don’t, its their own damn fault for not recognizing his inherent greatness and magnanimity.

    Lies…pretty, pretty lies…

    Btw, I didn’t need to read the article to comment on this one. Sorry 'bout that.

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